Holland Funeral Directors

12/23/2025

From all of us at Holland Funeral Directors, we wish you a peaceful and meaningful Christmas season. May this time of reflection bring comfort, love, and cherished memories of those who live forever in our hearts.

12/19/2025

Tupelo-Martha Christine “Christy” Shelton, 53, departed this life for her heavenly home from the Hospice Unit at North Miss. Medical Center in Tupelo on Dec. 18, 2025 after a brief struggle with ovarian cancer. Born in New Orleans, La, the daughter of Boyce and the late Kay Shelton, Christy grew up ...

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12/19/2025

Pontotoc-Courtney Pamela Bowles, 48, after a brief illness, died peacefully at home on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. Born in Memphis on February 4, 1977. She spent her youth in the Memphis area graduating from Bolton High School in Arlington, TN in 1995, later attending the University of Memphis. Co...

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12/18/2025

Verona – Sara Jim Wade was a woman of extraordinary accomplishment in her almost 90 years. She earned a PhD showing the world the value of lifelong learning. She loved living on the edge, doing things most women of her age would not dare. A devoted lover of the water and boating, Sarah has owned cou...

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12/17/2025

Palmetto-Robert Kenneth Thomason died Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at his home in Palmetto. He was born on December 26, 1933, in Blue Springs to the late Leroy Thomason and the late Edith Irene Faught Thomason. Kenneth graduated from the New Harmony School in Union County. He was a farmer from a youn...

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12/17/2025

Saltillo – Mrs. Judith “Judy” Conwill McCullough, 84, went to be with her heavenly Father Monday, December 15, 2025 from North Mississippi Medical Center following her earthly birthday on December 14, 1941. She was born to the marital union of William Roy and Helen Lawhon Conwill. She was a 1959 gra...

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12/16/2025

Tupelo- Jean Clark Walton passed away Saturday, December 13, 2025 at her home in Tupelo, Mississippi. She was born on December 12, 1946. Full obit will be posted soon.

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12/15/2025

Brewer-Joyce Sheppard Homan, after a long life, departed this earthly realm for her eternal home in heaven on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, from Sanctuary Hospice House after a brief illness. She was 89 years, 8 months and 9 days old. Born in the Brewer Community on April 5, 1936, while the 3rd deadliest t...

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12/15/2025

Skyline Community-Perry Nolen Sheffield Sr., 73, crossed over to eternal life from his home in the Skyline Community of Lee County on December 13, 2025, after a period of declining health. He was born in Tupelo, MS on September 29, 1952 to the late Robert Nolen Sheffield and Jimmie Mae Payne Sheffie...

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12/13/2025

Tupelo- Karen Delane Johnson Swindol, having just celebrated her 70th birthday, realized the promise of her faith in Jesus and, having received by grace eternal life, departed her earthly pilgrimage on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025 from NMMC-Tupelo. Karen had been in declining health for some time. Born in ...

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12/12/2025

We want you and your family to know we are remembering you in our thoughts and prayers during this holiday season. We want to personally invite you and your family to our
‘Service of Remembrance’

12/12/2025

Belden-A’Naleia Rumani Long was born on Nov. 2, 2025 at the Women’s Center in Tupelo to Ja’Nyiah Hardy and Earnest Long, Jr. She went to heaven to be with Jesus and all the other little children after living 36 days, transforming to Glory Land on Dec. 6, 2025. LeBonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis provided the best medical care they could provide. She was a lovely little baby girlthat seemed to share a smile on every visit with her family and loved the color pink. In the Bible, God says, “Suffer the Little Children to come unto me for Such is the Kingdom of God”. A’Naleia was dearly loved by her family who knows she bloomed early but God wanted her in his beautiful garden of little ones to live eternally.
A service celebrating her life will be held at 11 AM Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 in the Sadie Holland Memorial Chapel at Holland Funeral Directors-Tupelo with Pastor Willie Wilson officiating. Private immediate family only burial will follow in Porter’s Memorial Gardens. Visitation will begin at 10:30 am Saturday only. Holland Funeral Directors is honored to be serving the family.
Surviving A’Naleia are her mother, Ja’Nyiah Hardy and dad, Earnest Long, Jr.; her siblings, her twin, Zamaria Long, Iyanna Crayton and Breziya Long; her grandparents: Jasmine Hardy, David Bursey and Rosa Wallace; her great grandparents, Stephanie Dixon, Betty Dixon and Anthony Dixon; her aunts, Serenity Hardy, Marcasia Morris, Markyla Morris, Jarmesha McGaughy, Deerica Hudson and Toote McGaughy; her uncles, Isaac Dixon, Robert Watson, Marcus Morris, Jr., Antwon Ivy, Jr., Jimmari Dixon, Clint Bursey and Hikeem Bursey. She was preceded in death by great great grandparents, Ruth Ella Wilson, Joyce Payne, Charles Payne, Charles Dixon and Mary Armstrong and a cousin, Jaziah Fields.
The family thanks all of you for your prayers and words of love since A’Naleia’s birth and transformation to heaven.